Meet Our Life Coach, Mabel Vonk!
Our office provides support for individual mental and emotional wellness in a variety of ways, including providing services for life coaching. People don’t always know what’s involved in life coaching, so we sat down with our newest team member Mabel Vonk to ask some questions you might have on your mind about the modality and her experience with it.
What is life coaching to you?
Life coaching to me is an on-going invitation to step into the life you know deep down you really need to live. In a nutshell, I help people move from anxiety, stress, overwhelm, and feeling stuck to a life of confidence, connection, purpose, joy, and aliveness. When we experience too much overwhelm, frustration, or disconnection too often, I believe it indicates we have needs that are not getting met and unhelpful mindsets that are holding you back. And most important of all, there are dreams not being lived. As your coach, I can show up for you as a confidant, mentor, trainer, teacher, guide, motivator, and accountability partner who’s fully committed to your growth and building the life-skills, mindset and resilience you need to work towards your full potential and dreams.
What can people expect when they book sessions with you?
They can expect gentle yet honest and insightful conversation and, sometimes playful, tools and explorations for you to quickly expand your self-awareness and capacity to be with your humanity and potential. I believe this is the key to fully stand in our power, be grounded, and be confident in our ability to do what’s most important in life, which is to step forward to what matters, step forward into your values, and step forward into the kind of love and relationships you want. Practically, this translates to raising our self-awareness to make the right decisions, getting to know our unique core values, welcoming in a new vision of possibilities, building our emotional agility to turn fear into courage and focus, becoming friends with our inner critic, learning the skills to set proper boundaries to protect our energy, and creating healthy habits that support your well-being and your dreams.
What made you become a Life Coach?
“Whilst living the dream, I found myself feeling something was deeply wrong, and I felt burnt out and lost. I climbed the ladder only to realize the ladder was up against the wrong wall. So I chose to make a radical shift.”
Most of my life, I pursued a career in international diplomacy and humanitarian aid. I held on to an ideal of who I needed to be to be successful. And on the surface, it worked. I got to work at a NGO in Brazil, the Dutch Embassy in Panama, and at the UNHCR in Ecuador. Yet whilst living the dream, I found myself feeling something was deeply wrong, and I felt burnt out and lost. I climbed the ladder only to realize the ladder was up against the wrong wall. So I chose to make a radical shift. With help from others, I started to dissect this ideal I had been chasing, and I became curious about what the golden thread had been in all my endeavours and pursuits of how I’d always shown up—what my unique strengths and my gifts were. And one of the things I came to see was what I valued most: making true positive impact—abetterment, even peace—is achieved only when we start from the inside out. When I weaved my golden thread around my love for bringing out the best in people, I started my coaching training, and my clients have been having life-changing experiences ever since.
And last but not least, our tea-loving office wants to know: what is your favourite flavour of tea?
Green tea and licorice tea!
If you or someone you know would like to explore the ways that Growth & Wellness Therapy Center can help you on your journey, please contact our intake and administration team to set up a free consultation with one or more of our clinicians, including Mabel.
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Mabel Vonk, MSc, MA, is a Life Coach supporting clients with life transitions, confidence, career changes, and more. Book your free one-hour consultation today.